As of this post, we are half-way to Halloween! Usually CineD celebrates horror movies with an October Horror Movie Challenge. During the month of October, we torture ourselves with a personal challenge to see how many horror movies we can watch before the witching hour of All Hallow's Eve (many aim for a goal of 31 Horror movies). We talk about the movies we watch, rate them, recommend new horror movies, and talk about how great horror movies are. It's a hell of a good time.

What is this hell?

October's the best, but it's a busy month looking for costumes, going to parties, decorating, trick 'r treating, etc. Horror movies are also a little harder to come by (many streaming services lose their horror licenses because , DVDs and Blu-Rays are expensive) but pop back up during Spring & Summer. So why wait for October to dig into that horror backlog?

Are there Rules?

Set a personal goal for how many horror movies you're going to watch. The idea is to aim for at least 13 movies (but, again, this is a loose rule). They can be favorites or first-time views, it's your call. The challenge officially ends June 1st, 6AM (EST). Also, don't be afraid to discuss movies here or to go off-topic a little bit. This thread is not intended to be half a dozen pages of just movie reviews, it's to watch and enjoy horror movies and talk about them with goons.
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Where can I watch these "horror movies"?

Shudder: The best horror streaming service. They have an excellent catalog of well-known greats to obscure gems. They offer a free trial and can be streamed through the website, apps for tablets, or through Amazon Prime (and Amazon streaming apps)
Netflix/Amazon Prime/Hulu: Check the second post for movies available on streaming

What should I watch?

Feel free to REQUEST A WILD CARD! Instead of wasting your time trying to pick something for yourself, leave your fate in the hands of goons. The horror regulars know their stuff and will most certainly throw you an interesting movie. (If you have any triggers, I'd mention that too. You wouldn't want to be given Belladonna of Sadness if you can't handle surprise sex, or Cannibal Holocaust if you love animals)

Are there buh-buh-buh-bonus points??!

Absolutely! This year, you get bonus points for watching

*Day-time Horror - movies that mainly take place during the day or brightly lit (Shaun of the Dead, Ravenous, etc.)
*Horror Camp - Summer camp horror or camping trip horror (The Edge, )
*Horror Gone Wild! - Horror movies that take place during Spring Break!
*May(2002)
*Possession(1981)
*The Silence of the Lambs(1991)
*Beloved(1998)

When does it begin?

RIGHT NOW!!!From the beginning of this posting, any horror movie counts.

Thanks to MacheteZombie for the thread title!

Franchescanado fucked around with this message at May 2, 2017 around 15:00

Netflix
A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night
A Nightmare On Elm Street !
The Awakening
Baskin
The Blair Witch Project
Dead Silence
Dead Snow
DeathgasmThe Eyes of My Mother !!
Extraordinary Tales
The Fury
Hellraiser !
Hellbound: Hellraiser 2
Housebound
Hush
I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives In the House
The Invitation
It Follows !
Late Phases
The Legend of Hell House !
Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy !
The Omen
Ravenous !
The Shining !
Stage Fright
Tales From The Darkside: The Movie
Trollhunter
Under the Shadow
We Are What We Are
Wes Craven's New Nightmare
VHS

The greatest sensual pleasure there is is to know the desires of another!

Fun Shoe

I'll probably end up watching more than 13 because I'm insane.

For those that have Shudder and may be watching a few Rob Zombie films, consider giving House of 1000 Corpses another shot even if you didn't like it years ago. I think its really aged well and I like it a little bit more each time I see it.

I'm definitely gonna cheat. I never have the will power to wait in October either, my marathons always end up starting the week before. One year I even did September AND October and I watched over 50 horror movies.

It may be worth noting too that YouTube has a lot of horror movies. Someone in genchat (sorry I can''t recall who, probably one of you guys) put together a list of all the films on the They Shoot Zombies Don't They list available on YouTube. If someone can dig that up it might be a useful resource.

edit: I'm going to steal MacheteZombie's idea and myself for 13 movies. If I don't get through at least 13 please tear my soul apart (or probate me until October).

For a bit more accountability and organization I'm going to post my watchlist here. I'll be going through these in order. My goal is to get through at least 13, but my real goal is to finish the whole list by June:

Some of the "better" Hellraiser films after part 2:
1. Hellraiser 3
2. Hellraiser Bloodline

Stuff I own on Blu-ray but haven't seen yet:
3. Bride of Re-Animator
4. The Uninvited (1944)
5. The Blob (1958)
6. Hex
7. Mystery of the Wax Museum
8. Phantom of the Opera (1943)
9. Five Dolls for an August Moon
10. The Bloodstained Shadow

More gialli:
11. Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key
12. Torso
13. Short Night of Glass Dolls
14. Perfume of the Lady in Black
15. All the Colors of the Dark

Some essentials I feel embarrassed for having not seen:
16. The Howling
17. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
18. They Live
19. Prince of Darkness
20. Fright Night

More Lucio Fulci:
21. The Black Cat
22. Cat in the Brain
23. Lizard in a Woman's Skin
24. The Psychic

More Jean Rollin:
25. The surprise sex of the Vampire
26. Living Dead Girl
27. Requiem for a Vampire

Spatulater bro! fucked around with this message at Apr 28, 2017 around 14:58

For my final selections, I thought it would be fun to let the thread decide my Hammer fate. I realized earlier this year that a huge gap in my horror viewing exists. I haven't seen most of the Hammer films. So to help correct this, here's a short list of ones I haven't seen and if enough people suggest a few those will make it onto my list.

e: going to make this a tracking section for votes.
10-13: Dracula Has Risen From the Grave- 1Taste the Blood of Dracula-Brides of Dracula- 1Dracula AD 1972-Curse of the Werewolf-The Mummy- 2The Devil Rides Out- 1Horror Express(not technically a Hammer film, but everyone tells me it might as well be)- 2

MacheteZombie fucked around with this message at Apr 28, 2017 around 15:03

For my final selections, I thought it would be fun to let the thread decide my Hammer fate. I realized earlier this year that a huge gap in my horror viewing exists. I haven't seen most of the Hammer films. So to help correct this, here's a short list of ones I haven't seen and if enough people suggest a few those will make it onto my list.

10-13: Dracula Has Risen From the Grave, Taste the Blood of Dracula, Brides of Dracula, Dracula AD 1972, Curse of the Werewolf, The Mummy, The Devil Rides Out, Horror Express (not technically a Hammer film, but everyone tells me it might as well be)

I'm loving the TOXX idea. Anyway I suggest: Horror Express (duh), Dracula Has Risen From the Grave, Brides of Dracula, and The Mummy.

The only excuse I can really think of is that I ended up seeing the remake first, which maybe took some of the appeal out of the original for me. Sometimes that happens, the fact that I already know the basic outline of the story makes the original less enticing.

Does anyone have Shudder UK? I don't want to sign up to something that has an empty shell of options, but if I can find 13 horrors to watch in May I will do it quite happily! Maybe split my usual October Horrorthon into two parts and do one now as studying and trying to watch a horror a day is a bit of a pain in the arse.

I'm sorry, I'm not very familiar with how CineD does their movie challenges, but if I understand this correctly, I only have to watch 13 horror movies during May? Then I would have to rate them, write a little bit about them, and keep going?

Sign me up. Here's a prelim list of what I'm gonna try to get to this month (assuming all are somewhere streaming, including amazon rental):

The Void
The Asphyx
The Eyes of My Mother
The Lobster
Ghostwatch
Frailty
Black Devil Doll from Hell
I Am The Pretty Thing That Lives In The House
Contamination
The Wailing
Ouija: Origin of Evil
The Visit
From Beyond

All of those would be first time, excepting From Beyond (I was planning on watching that again soon anyways so might as well do it now)

Sign me up. Here's a prelim list of what I'm gonna try to get to this month (assuming all are somewhere streaming, including amazon rental):

The Void
The Asphyx
The Eyes of My Mother
The Lobster
Ghostwatch
Frailty
Black Devil Doll from Hell
I Am The Pretty Thing That Lives In The House
Contamination
The Wailing
Ouija: Origin of Evil
The Visit
From Beyond

All of those would be first time, excepting From Beyond (I was planning on watching that again soon anyways so might as well do it now)